- Gang Leader
- from the series Counternarratives
Frame (each): 62 1/2 × 32 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (158.8 × 82.6 × 5.7 cm)
Overall (Diptych): 60 × 64 in. (152.4 × 162.6 cm)
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Alexandra Bell is an interdisciplinary artist who uses her journalistic training to investigate and unpack racial bias within mainstream news sources. In her Counternarratives series, Bell creates multi-panel works in which she physically edits and intervenes on published news stories, revealing the ways in which purportedly neutral and objective editorial decisions result in stories that perpetuate racist narratives and harm minority communities. Gang Leader offers Bell’s corrective intervention to a 2018 New York Times feature about Gavin McInnes—founder of the Proud Boys, a fascist extremist group with a violent agenda.
ProvenanceThe artist, Brooklyn; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition History"Life Magazine and the Power of Photography," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 9, 2022–January 16, 2023.
"Alexandra Bell: Counternarratives," Hoffmaster Gallery, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, January 14–March 11, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
.B: Signed in pencil, recto, bottom right: Alexandra Bell 2021
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